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  2. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, 173 F. 177 ( C.C.E.D. Mo. 1909) The Standard Oil Company conspired to restrain the trade and commerce in petroleum, and to monopolize the commerce in petroleum, in violation of the Sherman Act, and was split into many smaller companies. Several individuals, including John D. Rockefeller, were fined.

  3. Standard Oil - Wikipedia

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    Standard Oil is the common name for a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911. The origins of the trust lay in the operations of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), which had been founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller. The trust was born on January 2, 1882, when a group of 41 investors signed the Standard Oil ...

  4. History of ExxonMobil - Wikipedia

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    By 1911, with public outcry at a climax, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States that Standard Oil must be dissolved and split into 34 companies, with two of them becoming Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Jersey Standard for short) and Standard Oil of New York (Socony for short ...

  5. Bayway Refinery - Wikipedia

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    1909. Capacity. 238,000 bbl/d (37,800 m 3 /d) Bayway Refinery is a refining facility in the Port of New York and New Jersey, owned by Phillips 66. Located in Linden and Elizabeth, New Jersey, and bisected by Morses Creek, it is the northernmost refinery on the East Coast of the United States. The oil refinery converts crude oil (supplied by ...

  6. NJ restaurant accused of racist double standard in ... - AOL

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    A New Jersey bar and restaurant is again facing claims of a racist double standard in enforcing its dress code in the wake of a viral video.

  7. Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916 - Wikipedia

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    Aerial view of the refinery Bayonne, New Jersey - the Tidewater Oil Co. refinery complex in 1890 Frank Tannenbaum July 22, 1915 July 22, 1915. The Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916 were labor actions of refinery workers in Bayonne, New Jersey, mostly Polish-Americans who struck Standard Oil of New Jersey and Tidewater Petroleum plants on Constable Hook beginning in mid-July 1915.

  8. American Standard Brands - Wikipedia

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    Website. americanstandard-us .com. American Standard Brands is a North American manufacturer of plumbing fixtures, based in Piscataway, New Jersey, United States. It is principally owned by the Lixil Group, with Bain Capital Partners holding a minority stake. The company was formed as American Standard Americas from the North American ...

  9. New Jersey v. T. L. O. - Wikipedia

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    New Jersey v. T. L. O., [fn 1] 469 U.S. 325 (1985), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which established the standards by which a public school official can search a student in a school environment without a search warrant, and to what extent. The case centered around a student at Piscataway High School in ...